Law and Religion Headlines
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
US demands release of Chinese Christian pastors and activists
(Carey Lodge, Christian Today)
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on horseback kill at least 24 in northern Nigeria
(Lanre Ola, Reuters)
NY mom wins right to not vaccinate son over religious belief
(Fox News)
Why Muslims in Europe back Christianity in public schools
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)
Influential Christian church ends protests by thousands of followers in Philippines
(Fox News)
School district investigates mass baptism filmed at football practice
(Matthew Pearl and Julie Wolfe, USA Today)
Lawyer who advised churches in China faces secretive detention
(Chris Buckley, The New York Times)
Cities hosting Pope Francis must take pains to protect church-state separation, says Americans United
(Press Release, Americans United for Separation of Church and State)
Key findings about American Catholics
(Michael Lipka, Pew Research Center FactTank)
U.S. Catholics open to non-traditional families
(Pew Research Center Religion & Public Life)
Most US Catholics are fine with nontraditional families
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Catholic to Catholic-ish: 45 percent in US feel connected to the faith
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
Vast majority of U.S. Catholics who left the church can’t imagine returning, study says
(Abby Ohlheiser, The Washington Post)
Pope's upcoming visit to U.S. generates church-state concerns
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Suit charges pet store chain with discrimination against Persians
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Petco won't sell Persians springtime goldfish
(Rebekah Kearn, Courthouse News Service)
San Jose Sikhs vote for the status quo
(Joe Rodriguez, San Jose Mercury News)
Internal struggles at US mosques seep into secular courts
(Fariba Nawa, Reveal)
Factional disputes in houses of worship are increasingly ending up in court
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
5th Circuit hears oral arguments in prison worship case
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Customs officials unlawfully seizing 10.5 million books and brochures intended for Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout Russia
(Human Rights Without Frontiers International)
Four years of bombings in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
(World Watch Monitor)
California assisted-suicide bill advances despite Catholic opposition
(Reuters, Religion News Service)
Somali Islamists warn against 'immoral culture' at hotels, beaches
(Feisal Omar, Reuters)
Belarus: Cancelled fine for religious worship re-imposed
(Forum 18 News Service)
Cornerstone Series: A Tale of Three Laws
(Karen Taliaferro, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Responding to A Tale of Three Laws: A Rational Case for Religious Freedom
(Sherif Girgis, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Responding to A Tale of Three Laws: Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue - Event Excerpt, Judaism
(David Novak, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Responding to A Tale of Three Laws: Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue - Event Excerpt, Islam Part I
(Anver Emon, Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)
Every tenth Russian justifies actions of Orthodox believers in Manege
(Interfax-Religion)
Is Pope Francis an environmental populist?
(Ignace Berten o.p, Europeinfos: Christian perspecitves on the EU)
Europe, who is your neighbour?
(Marek Misak, COMECE, Europeinfos: Christian perspecitves on the EU)
A Summer University for Europe – and beyond
(Michael Kuhn, COMECE, Europeinfos: Christian perspecitves on the EU)
Bishop of Newcastle announced
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Christine Hardman to be Twelfth Bishop of Newcastle
(The Church of England in the Diocese of Newcastle)
Considerations of PCC liability, engagement of amenity societies &c
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
As 800,000 from 70 countries gather, religious freedom & business takes the stage
(Religious Freedom & Business Foundation)
What is the Rimini Meeting?
(Rimini Meeting)
“What is this lack a lack of, o heart, of which all of a sudden you are full?”
(Rimini Meeting 2015)
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Group prods fellow Mormons to get behind family-friendly immigration reform
(Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune)
Syria's humanitarian crisis
(The Economist Explains)
Christian schools shut in Israel to protest budget cuts
(RT.com)
ACLU says new Nevada education law violates separation of church and state
(Eric Schulzke, Deseret News National)
US ambassador raises concern over violations of religious freedom in China
(RTT News)
Human Rights Tribunal orders spa to pay for religion-based demotion
(Rachel Ward, Edmonton Journal)
Petersburg needs three times as many churches as it now has - head of the Metropolia
(Interfax-Religion)
Dangers of international ‘fatigue’ on Israel-Palestine issue
(Uri Savir, Al-Monitor: Israel Pulse)
In new video, Planned Parenthood business partner defends abortion, ‘that’s where we get our tissue’
(Kate Scanlon, The Daily Signal)
Reimagining Europe – a multidisciplinary blog
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
Reimagining Europe: Our Shared Futures
(A new blog, The Church of England and the Church of Scotland)
N.J. billboard looks to raise awareness about Islam
(Hannan Adely, NorthJersey.com)
Hindu extremists threaten to kill Christians in India if they 'utter the name of Christ'
(Jonah Hicap, Christian Today)
Sirisena says Buddhist philosophy is noblest gift Sri Lanka can offer to world
(Eurasia Review)
Myanmar president signs (anti-Muslim) law that bans polygamy
(Asia News)
Bangladesh police charge 'Islamist militants' over atheist's murder
(Jason Burke, The Guardian)
Gay priest forced to wait for verdict in church discrimination tribunal
(The Guardian)
Protesters destroyed a temporary chapel near the Supreme Rada
(Interfax-Religion)
Petersburg needs three times as many churches as it now has - head of the Metropolia
(Interfax-Religion)
Christian faith is growing 7 years after Hindu radicals killed 100 believers, destroyed 6,000 churches in India
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Over 150 high schoolers stage walkout protest after trans student seeks to use girls' locker room
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Missouri students stage walkout over transgender girl in locker room
(Al Jazeera America)
New cross symbolic for Pakistan's Christians
(Shahzeb Jillani, BBC News)
Israel Christian schools plan to stay shut in protest
(Agence France-Presse)
Turkish raids on firms close to cleric raise fears of pre-election crackdown
(Daren Butler and Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters)
California assisted suicide bill to be heard in special session
(Sharon Bernstein, Reuters)
Kentucky clerk, citing God, defies courts on gay marriage
(Claire Galofaro, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Islamophobia rising: FBI warns ‘militia extremists’ are targeting Muslims
(Kit O'Connell, Mint Press News)
India's Supreme Court suspends and grants review of state court decision outlawing santhara
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Judge allows moral, not just religious, contraception exemptions
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
District court expands contraceptive coverage exemption to secular pro-life employers and employees with religious objections
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Protect Fayetteville files lawsuit challenging validity of civil rights ordinance
(KFSM News)
Suit challenges Fayetteville, Arkansas anti-discrimination ordinance
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
ECHR judges dissent on embryo comments - 'embryos cannot be reduced to constituent parts of anyone else’s identity'
(Times of Malta)
European Court upholds Italy's ban on donation of IVF embryos for scientific research
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Grand Chamber judgment Parrillo v. Italy - Banning a woman from donating embryos obtained from in vitro fertilisation to scientific research was not contrary to respect for her private life
(Press Release, European Court of Human Rights)
Embryo freezing and surrogacy
(Fr Robert Soler, Times of Malta)
Cancelled play highlights UK counter-extremism debate
(Simon Hooper, Al Jazeera)
Gay couples ask judge to punish defiant Kentucky clerk
(Mike Wynn and Richard Wolf / USA Today Network, Religion News Service)
Supreme Court says Kentucky clerk must let gay couples marry
(Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court refuses to stay order requiring Kentucky clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Federal government’s allowing Big Mountain Jesus statue on federal land in Montana doesn’t violate the Establishment Clause
(Eugene Volokh, The Washington Post)
9th Circuit rejects challenge to Big Mountain Jesus statue
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
'Big Mountain Jesus' gets OK from 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
(Vince Devlin, Independent Record)
Afghan man and woman given 100 lashes in public for adultery
(Mirwais Harooni and Jalil Ahmad Rezaee, Reuters)
White supremacist should die for three Kansas murders, prosecutor argues
(Kevin Murphy, Reuters)
Palmyra temple was destroyed by ISIS, U.N. confirms
(Annie Barnard and Hwaida Saad, The New York Times)
Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar’s mainstream
(Timothy McLaughlin and Hnin Yadana Zaw, Reuters)
Pope Francis asks priests to forgive the sin of abortion
(Rosie Scammell, Religion News Service)
News related to ISIS / ISIL / Daesh / "Islamic State"
Monday, 31 August 2015
Tajik Justice Ministry gave ten days to shut down Islamic Renaissance Party
(Interfax-Religion)
Fourteen suspected ISIS propagandists detained in Tajikistan
(Interfax-Religion)
Appearance of ISIS militants in Kyrgyzstan shows stability is fragile - Atambayev
(Interfax-Religion)
ISIS beheads 91 people, including 39 of its own fighters, for sorcery and sodomy in 1 month
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
ISIS fighters hoist Iraqi prisoners over flames and burn them alive in barbaric new video
(Samuel Smith, The Christian Post)
Persecuted Christians walk 10 hours in dark of night to escape ISIS, praise God for still being alive
(Stoyan Zaimov, The Christian Post)
Islamic State destroys part of Syria's Temple of Bel: monitors
(Sylvia Westall, Reuters)
Indians debate whether religious freedom means being able to starve yourself to death
(Annie Gowan, The Washington Post)
India top court lifts ban on Jains' santhara death fast
(BBC News)
India's top court suspends ban on Jain suicide ritual
(Al Jazeera)
Court agrees with Becket—Protects World War II monument from atheist attack
(The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)
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